Customer Reviews

Arya Supreme Quality Basmati Rice, 10-Pound Bag

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

We have been eating this rice for past 8 years and the rice has absolute consistent quality and texure every time we make it. We have been buying this from an ethnic store but now Amazon has the rice at even a better price. Would recommend soaking the rice for 30 min or so for best results.

This rice is grown in the foothills of Himalayas and is enriched with minerals and natural Aroma. We have cooked many dishes including some Tea Rice and they are to die for. We would highly recommend this brand of Rice for your entire family.

We've been buying Arya Basmati rice for years and prefer it over any of the other varieties we have tried. We are thrilled for it to be available on Amazon and even more to find out that it is the best selling rice on Amazon. It is perfectly aged, quite fragrant, not sticky and lends itself to countless recipes and culinary applications. This is one of those rice that one can eat plain, without any seasoning or additional flavorings.


We do not agree with the previous reviewer about the bag and packaging. All major Basmati brands come in this kind of packaging to avoid infestation by providing oxygen, cost of material, ease of storage and of course recycling of the bags to save natural resources. Plastic containers on the other hand pollute our system and add price without adding any value to the rice. The true Basmati rice is aged for a min 1 year to give a full flavor of aroma when cooked and they are stored in such bags, only in large quantities.

Basmati can be cooked in many different ways with many many different dishes. One of our favorite and quick recipe for Basmati rice is below.

Recipe for Peas Pulao:
Ingredients
2 cups water
2 tablespoon oil
1 cup Basmati rice
1/4 cup frozen green peas
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
Salt to taste

Directions
Sauté cumin seeds in oil using a saucepan, until light brown.
Add rice, peas, water to the saucepan and stir. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 12 minutes.
When rice is cooked, stir gently to fluff it up. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes.

We have tried several Basmati Rice over the years and finally settled on this brand. It really has full length grain and gives the aroma of a true basmati as it should. Most of the other brands we have tried are either blended rice or not real Basmati at all and were still called Basmati. It is on our regular buy cycle from Amazon. We highly recommend everyone to try it.

The basmati rice should only be judged after it is cooked and tasted. We love the fact that this rice is packed in a jute bag which is bio-degradable and not packaged in some fancy plastic box or other material with is not good for our environment. The rice should be washed before it is cooked and soaked for 20-30 minutes for the best results after cooking. Amazon also sells a 2 lb version of this same rice but we like the 10 lb version as it is better price per oz and we consume a whole lot of rice.

Update: August 14, 2010

Still the same wonderful product and the same aromatic flavor of this perfect rice.

You'll love this best tasting rice on the market. Don't forget to wash the rice before you put it in your rice cooker or if you prefer to boil and strain it. It makes a difference. We also soak the rice for minimum 30 mins before cooking and be sure to add a tablespoon ofolive oil (Veg oil also ok) . The rice comes out outstanding and a real treat to eat. Buy this or the 2lb package they have to try it. Must try it to see the real difference.

I should have listened to the negative reviews, but I thought they had experienced a fluke... perhaps the bags ruptured during transport and caused the problems they reported? Surely the positive reviews outweighed the negative. Well, my bag arrived intact and undamaged but the inner bag was, as stated by others, unsealed and exposed to the air. This might have been good rice when it originally shipped from the vendor, but by time it left the distribution center and arrived at my door the rice was stale, tainted by the odor of the bag, and inedible by my standards. I eat rice every day, but I will not be eating this rice.

The rice is good. We've been eating Basmati rice for a long time, and before finding this on Amazon we've purchased all our rice at the local grocery store in those small single meal packages.

I read the reviews on here, so was aware of the packaging problem when I received my first order. Just as everyone had written, packaging was very poor. Due to the packaging issues, I decided to transfer the rice into a sealed container. I recommend doing this for any bulk product, since you'll want to seal anything you'll be storing for more than a week. However, even though I was aware of the packaging issues, I still accomplished to spill a couple ounces of rice all over the kitchen counter and floor. That's how poor the packaging is! It's almost as if someone was playing some trick on me, because I poored almost all the rice into the container and thought it went quite well. No real problems, so I figure these other people probably just happened to get a bad bag. So when I got down to the last couple ounces, I thought it would be easier to pull the plastic bag out (which is inside the mesh sack) and pour the remainder into the container. Guess what? A hole at the very BOTTOM of the plastic bag. Believe me when I say, a couple ounces of rice is a lot of work to clean up.

I must say, though, that after transferring the rice to the container, I smelled this wonderful aroma. I've never actually smelled the scent of rice before, and this was pleasant. The rice cooked just as well as any other rice we've prepared, and it had the same hint of taste as the aroma. Very good rice for our common Indian curriies and Thai stir fry dishes.

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because of the packaging.

The rice has the taste of the burlap bag that it is packaged in. Even after cooking, it smelled like the bag
I would not recommend it. Thanks

This rice is a Himalaya Mt. range crop. It arrived in a hemp bag. It has nutrition information on a tag stringed to it. However, there is no instructions for preparation. It is wonderfully aromatic. It has taken some experimentation to cook it. At first I measured probably too much water and seemed flaky. However, by decreasing the measure of water to rice, I have found it best, because it tastes firm and somewhat chewy. Bon Appetite.

Ok quality, stadard basmati rice - But packaging is a problem. Comes in a hessian bag which is totally unnecessary - The plastic bag within the hessian (which holds the rice) was mostly open when the rice arrived (meaning that the rice was open to the air). The rice had taken on a smell from the hessian (which changed the taste even once it was cooked). The hessian smell was stronger than the usual (lovely) distinct basmati smell. After 2-3 weeks of storage the rice started to go stale and developed yellow/brownish patches on some grains.

I've never ordered a food item from Amazon before. I ordered this because I could no longer find the brand in our local stores. Truth is, this is so much easier and less expensive. I set it up on a regular refill schedule so I got a discount. It comes to the door and I don't have to think about it. I can cancel the refill schedule anytime I want. Very cool. Now I'm checking out the prices of some of the other foods Amazon offers.

As far as rice goes, Arya is the best basmati rice I've ever had. I look for this brand.